Instant Digital Image Delivery coming to LRG Complete

We have been able to add Digital Delivery to the LRG Complete template! When using PayPal as the payment processor your users will be able to instantly download the images they purchased. Download links will be secured with LinkLok so that nobody can hijack your images without paying. You will also be able to limit the amount of time the download links are active for. There are many many many other features available! Im going to try to get this released for 2.5.8 or wait until LRG Complete 3 which will be the latest stable release. This template has sort of been in a working beta state for quite some time, and LRG Complete 3 will be the first non-beta release.

I will keep you all posted!

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New gallery LRG Fullscreen Slideshow coming soon!

In addition to the development of the LRG complete template i have been slowly working on the LRG Fullscreen Slideshow template. This template allows you to have multiple galleries of images all viewable as a fullscreen slideshow. its also allows you to have multiple content pages where you can place text or other content. Keep an eye out for it sometime in the near future!

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TTG Client Response Gallery released!

Matthew Campagna at theturninggate.net has updated his TTG Client Response Gallery for V2.

This is a great gallery for those of you who interact with clients online.

The gallery employs FormToEmail.com’s FormToEmail PHP script to collect data from clients, including image selections, image ratings, individual image comments and more. The gallery employs HighSlide to allow side-by-side large-size image previews without disrupting form input, and (optionally) also allows clients to download a copy of each image to their own machine.

The gallery’s features include:

Check out the theturninggate.net for more detail

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LRG Complete 2.5.7 Released!

LRGComplete2.5.6

We are happy to annouce the release of the latest release of the LRG Complete template, LRG COMPLETE 2.5.7, it includes all (well as many as i could get to) the latest bug fixes, revisions, user suggested items, and new features as posted in the forums and via email.

Please delete any previous versions of this template and install this version. You need to update ALL template files, not just some of them.

PLEASE read the user manual packaged with the zip or downloaded from the link below as it will answer most all of your questions and lessen the setup time for you to get up and running.

DOWNLOAD 2.5.7 | TEMPLATE MANUAL | DEMO | FORUM THREAD

David at http://www.outdoorimages.blogspot.com has been kind enough to write up an amazing manual for this template. Please read it and give David a big thanks for all his hard work! Thanks David!

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Quick update

Hey everyone,
I have been out of town for the past 4 days so we had a little downtime on template development. Im back now and ready to go. I need to catch up with emails and forum postings first, then i can get to work again and get a new version released very soon. I have already made a good amount of updates but have held off on the release of it. Im going to wrap this release up as soon as i can and get it out to you all soon.

Thanks!
Joe

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LRG Complete 2.5.6 released!!

LRGComplete2.5.6

We are happy to annouce the release of the latest release of the LRG Complete template, LRG COMPLETE 2.5.6, it includes all the latest bug fixes, revisions, user suggested items, and new features as posted in the forums and via email.

Please delete any previous versions of this template and install this version. You need to update ALL template files, not just some of them.

NOTE: Full documentation for this release is coming soon! The majority of stuff is the same, but there are some things you need to know to get it working correctly. I will point out the changes below. We will make a posting when the updated documentation is released, but for now see the instructions below

DOWNLOAD 2.5.6 | TEMPLATE MANUAL | DEMO | FORUM THREAD

=============UPDATED TEMPLATE INSTRUCTIONS================


The first major thing we need to go over is the upload paths for galleries and pages. Previously, galleries were uploaded into the same folder that your shell files lived, for example:
ROOT
Category1
-Gallery1
All shell template files located in the root

In this new version all galleries are uploaded in a folder named “galleries” (all lower case) in your root folder or any subfolder you are installing LRG Complete in. This is the same as how you upload pages, which all go in a “pages” folder.

So In a complete installation on your web server, with galleries and pages, your folder structure should look sort of like this:
ROOT
galleries
-Category1
-Gallery1
pages
-aboutus
All shell template files located in the root.

When uploading galleries your “put in subfolder” field within Lightroom should look like this:
galleries/category1/gallery1

For pages:
pages/aboutus


To create a gallery index, an gallery of thumbnails that link to other galleries, you need to use the Gallery template and follow all the uploading rules for galleries. The only difference really is that the links for each image MUST be defined in the IPTC metadata field “Provider”. You can find that IPTC metadata field under the “Instructions” field when viewing the images metadata.

You can link each image to another gallery or a page. To do that we need to enter our links in the “Provider” field using the following linking conventions.

To link an image to another gallery you follow this convention:
(gallery) followed by a dash (-) followed by the Category the gallery is in (Category_Name) followed by a forward slash (/) followed by the name of the gallery you are linking to (Gallery_Name).

The result is something like this:
gallery-Category_Name/Gallery_Name

*The word “gallery” that goes before the dash tells the template that everything following the dash will be a path to the gallery you want to load. You must use the word “gallery” and the dash as is, do not modify it.

To link an image to a page you follow this convention:
(page) followed by a dash (-) followed by the page name (About_Us) of the page you are linking to.

The result is something like this:
page-About_Us

*The word “page” that goes before the dash tells the template that everything following the dash will be a path to the page you want to load. You must use the word “page” and the dash as is, do not modify it.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: If you enter something into the “Provider” field for the image, the template will attempt to link that thumbnail to something other then a larger version of the image. After you are done creating the Gallery Index i would highly recommend deleting and “Provider” metadata for your images.

This covers the major instructions that are needed to get this new version of the template working. More detailed instruction will be in the latested version of the manual, which will be released soon. You can allow post in the forum and i will help you out. David at http://www.outdoorimages.blogspot.com has been kind enough to write up an amazing manual for this template. As soon as he gets a bit of free time he will update the manual to cover the new features in 2.5.6. Please be patient and give David a big thanks for all his hard work! Thanks David!
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Cooliris Latest release: PicLens 1.7

We are thrilled to announce the launch of PicLens Version 1.7 with three exciting additions:

Find out more at http://blog.cooliris.com and download your own free latest release at http://www.piclens.com.

All the best,
Luna and The Cooliris Team

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LRG Complete 2.5.5 Released!!

The latest LRG Complete version is now 2.5.5 and is filled with many updates, fixes, and new features. Please DELETE ANY previous versions and copy over the new ones, you will still be able to use you presets you may have made.

Change Log:

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If you requested a change of fix and do not see it reflected in this latest version please do not worry, some things take time and i’ll get them completed as soon as i can.

Again PLEASE DELETE and previous version of this template from your Lightroom Web Galleries folder and install this version. Also, please only comment on bugs or issues with this latest release to avoid confusion.

DOWNLOAD RC2.5.5 | DOWNLOAD THE MANUAL | DEMO SOON | FORUM THREAD

 

 

USING MULTIPLE PASSWORDS FOR GALLERIES:
Open up the pw.php file for your gallery and have a look at the comments and examples at the top. It is very easy to implement.

USING SPECIAL LANGUAGE CHARACTERS IN CATEGORY AND GALLERY NAME:

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LRG 2.5.4 Update released! And a quick note.

We updated the template once again. Almost all of the bugs posted in the forum for 2.5.4 have been fixed in this update. we also added some new features to the Email Order Form, ID Plate and Site Title and Description positioning, and some others.

Note: I will be out of town from 6/6 - 6/8 and will not be able to respond to emails, forum posts, or comments. David at Outdoor Images Fine Art should be able to answer all your questions should any arise. David has been very helpful in the development of this template so we should all give him a big THANKS! Thanks David!

I will post the changelog and new features for this updated release when I return.

Again PLEASE DELETE and previous version of this template from your Lightroom Web Galleries folder and install this version. Also, please only comment on bugs or issues with this latest release to avoid confusion.

DOWNLOAD RC2.5.4 | DOWNLOAD THE MANUAL | VIEW DEMO | FORUM THREAD

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LRG Complete 2.5.4 Released!

UPDATE: Sorry i screwed up the zip file when this 2.5.4 was firest released (i need some sleep). Please download again from the link below.

Thanks for all your patience everyone! We are ready to release the latest version of the LRG Complete template.

The latest version is now 2.5.4. Please DELETE ANY previous versions and copy over the new ones. You WILL lose any presets you have created, but from now on any new versions will use the same identifier and you will no longer lose preset settings when you upgrade, so this will be the last time you lose a preset.

Change Log:

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